#Dent Place

[thepastisalreadywritten]

When John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy moved in together for the first time as newlyweds, they rented a four-bedroom townhouse in Georgetown, with oak floors, huge windows, and an English-style back garden with a brick walkway and bright flower beds.

Now, for the first time, that house is about to hit the real estate market, having been kept in the owner’s family since it was built in 1942.

The list price is $2 million.

John and Jackie married on 12 September 1953, in Newport, Rhode Island.

It was the high-society event of the season, with more than 700 guests.

After they honeymooned in Mexico, Jackie, 24, stayed with her in-laws in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, while John, a 36-year-old freshman senator, visited on the weekends.

Jackie wasn’t a huge fan of the arrangement and was “anxious” to get a place of their own, according to Anne Garside in her book “Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954.”

John’s secretary found the furnished rental at 3321 Dent Pl. NW in December 1953; the couple moved in just after the holidays, in January 1954.

Jackie was no newcomer to the Washington area. She had spent part of her childhood in the tony suburb of McLean, Virginia, and had been working as a photographer for the Washington Times-Herald when she met Kennedy in 1952.

According to Garside, John already had ambitions for the White House and welcomed any press attention, so when a photo agency suggested a spread on Jackie’s homemaking skills in the spring of 1954, he and Jackie readily agreed.

From May 4 to 9, photographer Orlando Suero took more than a thousand photos of the couple in their rented home, many of which ended up in the women’s magazine McCall’s.

In the photos, the house holds the couple like a warm embrace. Here, they lean side by side against a balcony railing; there, John relaxes with a book in the sunny backyard while Jackie tends the garden.

There are photos of Jackie coming down the stairs in a ballgown for a candlelit dinner party.

There are others showing her dressed “casually” in a plaid pencil skirt while talking on the phone in a second-floor bedroom and on the patio petting the dog.

Suero even captured the couple looking through their wedding photos together.

“The sessions reflected the image that the Kennedys themselves wished to project,” Garside wrote: glamorous, rich, young and powerful.

Even so, she wrote, a present-day reflection on all that would befall them makes them appear “strangely vulnerable” in the photos.

The Kennedys damaged a number of items in the home in only six months, leading to a large bill upon moving out — $385.49, or about $4,300 in today’s money.

The listing includes a photo of a letter from Jackie to her landlord Virginia Childs, reading:

After Dent Place, the Kennedys spent a few months at Jackie’s family home in McLean, where they experienced their first great trial as a couple.

John’s chronic back problems became so severe, he required a spinal-fusion operation and nearly died of a resulting infection. They spent time in Florida while he recovered.

When they returned to Washington, the couple moved to Hickory Hill in McLean.

It was there the Kennedys experienced another tragedy: In August 1956, their first child, Arabella, was stillborn.

The couple would later lose another child, Patrick, who died at 2 days old in 1963; months later, Kennedy was assassinated.

“Their stay in the house at Dent Place has received only passing mentions in books about the Kennedys,” Garside wrote. “Yet these few months in their first home were perhaps the only relatively normal time in J[ohn] and Jackie’s married life.”

After Kennedy’s assassination, Jackie moved temporarily to Georgetown again, this time to a sprawling mansion on N Street NW.

Incredibly, that property is also on the market.

At $2 million, the Dent Place home is by far the cheaper of the two. The one on N Street, which has been combined with two adjacent properties, is listed at $26.5 million.

#John F. Kennedy #John Fitzgerald Kennedy #JFK #Jacqueline Lee Bouvier #Jackie Kennedy #Georgetown #Orlando Suero #McCall’s #N Street NW #Dent Place #Hickory Hill #Washington

[froot-batty]

FINALLY.

lore under the cut! (warning it's uh. it's long)

Because the two of them are very closely entwined, I'll write their backstories as one big thing instead of individually

Bruce Wayne had the life every kid dreamed about. The child of two successful, wealthy, loving parents, his own staff, and the ability to go wherever or do whatever he wanted in the city. Well, with parental supervision, of course. Thomas and Martha, though they believed in Gotham and saw the good in it, also tended to shelter Bruce a bit, just to keep him away from the dangerous parts. Unfortunately this backfired, making young Bruce only want to go into the city alone even more.

Harvey Dent was the polar opposite of Bruce. He grew up in the worst part of the Narrows, with a single immigrant mother who was constantly taken advantage of by their landlord or her various bosses. While she loved him dearly, she couldn't be there all of the time for him (due to her needing to work multiple jobs) or protect him from the horrors going on outside their door. He bore witness to a great deal of traumatic things, and eventually took to leaving his house when his mother wasn't home in order to get a reprieve.

Bruce and Harvey first met when they were very young children, as Harvey was wandering the streets near his home and Bruce had escaped to go and explore the Narrows. They clicked almost instantly; despite the differences in the way they grew up, they both shared the dream that Gotham was, at it's core, a good place (or could be a good place). Harvey eventually introduced his childhood friend (and neighbor) Selina Kyle to Bruce, and they became a tight trio for many years.

Bruce's parents died when he was 11. His grief made his ventures out to the Narrows lessen, but Harvey and Selina would often make trips to Bruce's house to make sure he was okay.

Harvey's mother died when he was 15. She had been sick for years now, and the constant stress of having to work multiple jobs eventually got to her. He appeared to cope with it easily enough, but on the inside, his anger towards the perceived injustice she received would never really fade.

Even as they grew older, and neared adulthood, Bruce's and Harvey's friendship seemed as strong as one could be. At least, that's what Harvey thought, until the moment Bruce completely vanished from Gotham altogether. Bruce's disappearance made Harvey and Selina drift apart, so Harvey in turn poured himself into his studies at college. It would be 15 years until Harvey saw Bruce again, and though part of him wanted to be angry, he was just desperately happy to see his best friend again.

Harvey by then was well into his career as District Attorney, and had aspirations of running for mayor in the upcoming election. Bruce was the one who eventually encouraged him to do it, promising funds and all the help Harvey could need to run his campaign. There was another person planning on running for mayor in the election, one Oswald Cobblepot, but neither of them worried too much about him, at the start.

By this time Bruce had reconnected with Selina as well. Harvey and Selina never could get as close as they were in their childhood, so her instant connection with Bruce began to make Harvey a little worried. A little jealous. He didn't want to lose his best friend again, even if it was to someone who was supposed to also be his friend. Harvey acting weird began to drive Bruce away a little bit, which only pushed him further to Selina, creating a vicious cycle between the two of them.

Well into the swing of the mayoral campaign, Harvey began to...lose it a little bit. He had begun recieving open threats on his life (from Oswald, but he didn't know that at the time, and began to think people were conspiring against him), and his paranoia over that along with everything going on with Bruce and Selina made things up top get worse. By now he was fully distancing himself from his two friends, and started to wonder if they were plotting against him.

Everything came to a head when Harvey was due to make a speech at Wayne Manor. It was only a night or two until the results of the election would be announced, and Bruce had thrown a party in honor of Harvey's campaign (and in the hopes it'd cheer him up). Harvey initially didn't want to do a speech, but Bruce encouraged it, and the District Attorney took the stage.

Unbeknownst to him, Oswald had planned to send Dent a final message - one that would take him out of the running completely.

He paid a man to dress up as a waiter and infiltrate the party. Harvey was in the middle of his speech when Penguin's man ran up to the stage and threw a glass full of acid directly at his face.

This was Harvey's breaking point. Forced to drop out of the race and his mind in tatters, he fully believed that Bruce was in on the plot to take him out, and turned his back both to him and Selina. Where they had bonded over the idea of making Gotham better, this is where they'd fall apart; because Harvey still believes that he can improve Gotham, even if he has to burn the city to the ground to do it.

(Both of them are Bisexual. Harvey also has OSDD-1, which I will probably explain in another post, since this one's way too long)

#do you guys wanna know how long their colors took me #2 hours. individually. so 4 hours in total spent DYING TRYING TO COLOR #AND I DONT EVEN LIKE HOW THEIR REFS TURNED OUT THAT MUCH #yall better like these or im blowing this entire place up (lighthearted) #anyway fucked up toxic twobat supremacy #frootverse #harvey dent #two face #bruce wayne #batman #rogue design #rogues gallery #my art

[whipbogard]

He really be saving the girl and walk away from the explosion huh? 👀 ❤️

#exploding the place was absolutely unnecessary tbh #what if you get burned again hUH??? #but our boy 2F gotta exit with style #😎🔥 #MY TWOBATS HEART IS ON FIRE #wppyart #bruharvey #twobats #harvey dent #bruce wayne #detective comics 1068 #for my own future ref

[savage-rhi]

Magenta.

#i lost my job #even though they're not saying its because of my disability it is because of it #I've been applying to places and some of the safety nets i had fell through #im scared right now and feel very betrayed #i got enough to get me through the month but beyond that idk what to do #i have resources im looking into and as most know that doesn't put a dent into finances #i need help #i feel bad for asking and i know i preach people shouldnt feel ashamed #but i do get where folks are coming from with that #the shame is powerful especially when you pride yourself as someone that takes care of themselves #im open to ideas opinions whatever folks want to say #i haven't felt this triggered ptsd wise in a long time past homeless experience and work abuse has been creeping in #I'm trying to get to the good but its really hard seeing it right now after getting screwed for the millionth time #for something i can't control with my body #i guess on a good note that partnership meeting went well #it seems like an excellent opportunity but its also an investment and i don't have the means to put into that right now

[snackugaki]

this goes out to all my art homies who struggle with riseLeo’s shape language

#cracking things on his ginormous chin #is easy mode #that weird little Devo hat point on the top of his head? #so many jokes #i swear if that little pointy bit isn't in the right place #it legitimately infuriatingly Looks Wrong(tm) #and you have to keep moving that shit back and forth #made me flash back to my HTML classes #thinking like: does this section look better one pixel to the left or to the right? #....I FORGOT HIS DUMB LITTLE NIPPLE DENTS #AGAIN #fuck it #*undents his stupid plastron* #*for the express purpose of this dumb little comic* #welcome to the weekend #hello my name is snackugaki #and i'm a professional turtle bully

[kneecap-homicide]

Huh

#cant believe two face nearly blew up the twin towers in 1988 😔 #batman #batman comics #dc #dc comics #bruce wayne #two face #harvey dent #9/11 #a death in the family #a lonely place of dying #part 3 of 5 #the new titans

[rassilon-imprimatur]

#HARVEY'S COMING!!!!! #HARVEY'S LORE IS BEING PLACED!!!!! #HE'S THERE!!!!! UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS!!!!!!!!! #The Batman #The Penguin #Clancy Brown #Salvatore Maroni #Two-Face #Harvey Dent

[timesomewhere]

one thing about martin freeman is that he is going to play the role of a Guy in a Situation

#just started watching sherlock a decade late and I can't help but notice he has a very specific typecast #of just like #random guy who now has to deal with the consequences of everybody else's actions because he was in a place at a time #I firmly believe that you could switch martin freeman characters into each others' stories and the stories would remain quite similar #martin freeman #bbc sherlock #john watson #black panther #everett ross #nativity! #paul maddens #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #arthur dent #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #the lord of the rings

[maniacwatchestheworld]

Thinking about it, Two-Face would be the weirdest person to date sheerly due to the fact that he would want to be #2 with everything. He can't try too hard with his romantic gestures. It always has to be at least a little disappointing lest he loses the #2 spot and becomes #1.

Can you just imagine. Two-Face and Bruce are dating and Bruce can't help but to tell his partner how much of a good time he's having.

Bruce: Harvey, this is the best date I've ever been on. Harvey: *Screeches* Harvey: Take that back! Say it was the second best date you've ever had! Bruce: But… It wouldn't be true… D': Harvey: Bruce, do you know how fucking hard you make it for us to be your second best relationship when you never fucking go outside and interact with people like a normal human being!????

#It's like the reverse of the Harley Quinn Valentines Day special. #Harley: This better be the best Valentines day you've ever had! #Harvey: HOW DARE you say this is the best Valentines Day you've ever had! D:< #More reasons they should be friends! :D #harvey dent #two-face #two face #twoface #bruharvey #twobats #bruce wayne #ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder #compulsion #obsessive compulsion #tagging those 4 just to be safe. Since the source of Two-Face's obsession with the number 2 and therefore the need to be in 2nd place #is likely because he has OCD or something similar.

[luvscharlos]

welp, happy birthday to alex ig (his birthday present is logans car)

#i do understand bc (logistically) they have more of a chance for points w alex #if he doesnt tho.. like what was the point #BUT thats so unfair to logan who wasnt the one who made the mistake in the first place #why should logan suffer when the team also fell behind and doesnt have a spare chassis??? #in terms of team and driver morale i do see how this can put a dent on that #most importantly this is just another lesson that this sport is all about money #like imagine they did that w ferrari (either guy).. the uproar would be ASTRONOMICAL??? #australia24 #williams #alex albon #logan sargeant

[andr0nap-wf]

i need someone to carry my ass to the netracells so i can spend 20 minutes in there taking pictures

#andro talks #ive been there #once i think #maybe twice actually #it sucked #joined a random squad so i had 10 seconds to take a few screenshots of the place before hauling ass to extraction #idc about the loot i need the lore bits #will i ever put a dent in high lvl enemies in this life? who knows #i miss my pre-nerf lenz... #baby what have they done to you

[rougegirl]

Harvey Two-Face my beloved…..

#I care about him…..so much #two-face #kinda based on a panel from A Lonely Place Of Dying #Harvey dent #Harvey two face #two face #dc comics #Batman #rouge’s rad art tag

[highscal]

if you listen closely you can hear the sound of my knees hitting the floor

#denting concrete for real #someone put me back in my place calum i need you to post an ig dump do SOMETHING IM ACTING UP SO BAD #lh

[wander-clover]

I'm not the best at writing consice dialogue but someday maybe I learn.

I thought since I draw Harvey. Why not draw Gilda. Was figuring out how to style her hair. But since I'm too indecisive my explanation is she likes styling her hair.

#wander-clover #my art #harvey dent #glida gold #dc comic #sketch #to not flood like description I might try sprinkling in my interpretation or style. #I'm not the best at placing down my thought process in words. also just other things. #but I also want to keep things open for now. #wanted to draw some angst in the second drawing so pardon is in the alt text. #artists on tumblr #artwork #traditional art

[batcavescolony]

A Lonely Place of Dying. Tim officially meeting Batman for the first time.

Timmy thinking ahead placing a tracer on Two face

Being Robin for a whole 10min and already getting a death scare

And Batman begrudgingly getting his new Robin

#comics #dc comics #robin #tim drake #batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #red robin #jason todd #nightwing #red hood #batfam #bat family #a lonely place of dying #two face #harvy dent #i like how dick and alfred are in on it like they also saw how shit wasnt going great and have tried everything. tim is their hail Mary #and tim pleading his case. being all full of hope and wanting to help....he doesn't know how much shit hes going to go through. poor kid #give him the `this actions will have consequences` video game pop up #also idk who needs to hear this Jason Todd is an unreliable narrator. like this is what happened. he was dead. he wasn't there. #he didn't see what his death did to bruce. he didnt see the aftermath. he didn't hear tims reasons for becoming Robin. #his opinions are skewed because of his feelings and emotions. these are just facts thats his pov but povs aren't always true #batman comics #comic panels #batcavescolony reads comics

[kismetmoon]

now kith

[ID: a rough, choppy 2D animation on a grey background of two original Flatland characters, named Liz and Ruth.

Liz is a black line with a seven point star on one end of her body, which is her head, and a five point star on the other end, which is her tail. She has two cilia near her tail and one near her head. There is a small indent on one side of her body, opposite the front cilium.

Ruth is also a black line with a V-shaped dent in the middle of her body, two cilia near her head and tail respectively, and light grey patches.

They both move like snakes. Liz enters and goes right, turns as if she will go north, but then sharply turns again and heads south. She meets Ruth, who emerges from the bottom. They move closer to one another until their front points touch, a little black heart appears then disappears as this happens. Liz then backs up and turns right to leave. Ruth follows and stops in front her, as if wanting to touch front points with her again. This causes Liz to quickly halt and back up, before playfully dodging past Ruth and out of frame. Ruth watches Liz leave and then quickly follows in her path. The screen is left empty for a second before the animation repeats itself.

End ID.]

#god ruth’s patches were a pain but i wanted this to look ‘charmingly choppy’ anyways so it’ll be fine #but this was very fun to make. way better than studying pfft #they’re both bendy country gals #ruth used to live in the city but she’s been living in the country for longer now so she can be bendy too #but the main point of this was that ​i wanted to show how ruth’s dent affects her movement #you can kinda see that as she tries to turn and follow liz #it doesn’t follow her body’s curve it’s very fixed in place #it’s just…stagnant ig is the best word #flatland #oc #elizabeth huntsworth #ruth galton #supernova #animation